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bush administration apologized for that, the obama administration did, too. paul ryan is running with a guy who literally wrote a book call ed "no apologies." does he also mean no apology for that? no answer. asked directly if a military strike on iran, would technically be an effective means of stopping iran from developing a nuclear weapon, vice president biden said yes to that question. paul ryan, no answer. asked what exactly a romney/ryan administration would do differently on iran and on syria, that is more strong than what the obama administration is doing since they've criticized the administration as weak, what would they do that would be stronger? no answer from paul ryan which led joe biden to say, hey, the only other thing we're not doing that we could be doing is war. are you saying you want a war? no answer. here's my favorite one. >> let me ask you quickly what's your criteria for intervention? >> yeah. >> in syria? >> worldwide. >> what is in the national interest of the american people. what is in the national security of the american people.
bush administration apologized for that, the obama administration did, too. paul ryan is running with a guy who literally wrote a book call ed "no apologies." does he also mean no apology for that? no answer. asked directly if a military strike on iran, would technically be an effective means of stopping iran from developing a nuclear weapon, vice president biden said yes to that question. paul ryan, no answer. asked what exactly a romney/ryan administration would do differently on...
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. >> the obama administration, the obama campaign specifically has been more willing than i would have expected to campaign on reproductive rights issues. in a we will defend the status quo and defend women's rights from the republicans who have been so aggressive on them kind of way. i wonder if you have advice for the democrats in trying to make the akin issue a problem for them that they do not end once they finally get rid of todd akin, that they don't end with the condemnations of akin, but one that has them own the policy. >> the first thing i would tell them, just like they were trying to define mitt romney and did a good job talking about taxes and that sort of thing, identify paul ryan with todd akin's positions. and you know, show that there's no light between the two of them. they're as close as two coats of paint on legislative issues. show it's on abortion, that it's on women's issues, but also show that it has to do with things like safety net programs, they would shred the safety net and harm the poor, show that they would do policies that would be harmful to the middle
. >> the obama administration, the obama campaign specifically has been more willing than i would have expected to campaign on reproductive rights issues. in a we will defend the status quo and defend women's rights from the republicans who have been so aggressive on them kind of way. i wonder if you have advice for the democrats in trying to make the akin issue a problem for them that they do not end once they finally get rid of todd akin, that they don't end with the condemnations of...
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try to predict how the supreme court was going to rule generally agree it will rule in favor of the obama administration and it was clearly constitutional, seen as if not a slam-dunk almost a layup. a funny thing happened in the two years it took to get the hale reform law going through the courts and to the highest courts, arguments about what the affordable care act does had formed in circles and right wing media and somehow crept into mainstream and into the court and ultimately out of the mouths of sitting supreme court justices. for instance, there is the broccoli argument. that if the government can force you to buy insurance, they can force you to eat broccoli, too, or at least purchase it. this has been a very popular argument on the right. senator tom coburn made essentially the broccoli argument during justice kagan's confirmation hearings. >> if i wanted to sponsor a bill and it said, americans, you have to eat three vegetables and three fruits everyday, and i got it through congress and it's now the law of the land, got to do it, does that violate the commerce clause? >> sound
try to predict how the supreme court was going to rule generally agree it will rule in favor of the obama administration and it was clearly constitutional, seen as if not a slam-dunk almost a layup. a funny thing happened in the two years it took to get the hale reform law going through the courts and to the highest courts, arguments about what the affordable care act does had formed in circles and right wing media and somehow crept into mainstream and into the court and ultimately out of the...
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look at the impact of the ryan budget not just from the obama administration or this campaign by independent experts. it would kick hundreds of thousands of kids off of head start. it's the largest cut in history on medicaid which means people would be kicked out of nursing homes. it's not how you build a strong economy. it's not balanced approach to reducing our deficit and it's not an approach that the american people support. >> let me ask you about one last strategic issue that i think i saw in the speech but i'm in the sure i'm seeing it right. i think he name checked six different republican presidents in this speech. he talked about how a lot of the things that he's criticized now he's called socialism now are things that republicans not that long ago embraced as their own ideas. in doing that and in name checking republican presidents and talking about how republicans have been willing to abandon their own ideas now that president obama supports the idea, i felt like he was not just criticizing republicans but trying to peel off republican voters who may think of themselves as consis
look at the impact of the ryan budget not just from the obama administration or this campaign by independent experts. it would kick hundreds of thousands of kids off of head start. it's the largest cut in history on medicaid which means people would be kicked out of nursing homes. it's not how you build a strong economy. it's not balanced approach to reducing our deficit and it's not an approach that the american people support. >> let me ask you about one last strategic issue that i...
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in april he accused the obama administration of mission creep and mission muddle. once it was successful, he said he was pleased with how it's gone. laid out step by step by abc, the response from the romney cam pain, remember the guy who said the etch a sketch thing? this is what he said about mr. romney on libya. he said mitt romney has responded to the situation in libya as it has developed going to it's the president who has been unclear regarding what his intention was with respect to our military's involvement in libya. whether or not you agree with president obama on foreign policy, and i think that most americans find his foreign policy largely uncontroversial, it's hard to imagine that mitt romney will portray himself as the guy that makes more sense on foreign policy. if this is the new romney campaign plan, this is awkward timing for them to relaunch their campaign around the idea of a mitt romney foreign policy genius strategy. all this week the romney campaign has been making all lovey dovey with the paul ryan budget who mitt romney says he loves to su
in april he accused the obama administration of mission creep and mission muddle. once it was successful, he said he was pleased with how it's gone. laid out step by step by abc, the response from the romney cam pain, remember the guy who said the etch a sketch thing? this is what he said about mr. romney on libya. he said mitt romney has responded to the situation in libya as it has developed going to it's the president who has been unclear regarding what his intention was with respect to our...
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the obama administration bailed out the automobile industry. it's roared back to life and the big three are hiring again. yesterday mitt romney gave that obama administration success story a little mitt romney tickle. >> i saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state is thinking of moving all production to china. >> wow. mr. romney saying, hey, don't get too comfy there, ohio, with the obama rescue of the automobile industry. it's been better. we saved everything here and that's why you have jobs, but don't get too comfy. i read they are moving all the jobs working for jeep. they are moving all the jeep jobs to china. he said that in ohio on the campaign trail 12 days before the election. and it is not true at all. the real jeep news that day was actually that chrysler announced they were adding 1100 new jobs in the u.s. here making jeeps in detroit. and chrysler says it could hire almost as many people at another plant in warren, michigan. chrysler is investing half a billion in its toledo plant. but mitt romney got up t
the obama administration bailed out the automobile industry. it's roared back to life and the big three are hiring again. yesterday mitt romney gave that obama administration success story a little mitt romney tickle. >> i saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state is thinking of moving all production to china. >> wow. mr. romney saying, hey, don't get too comfy there, ohio, with the obama rescue of the automobile industry. it's been better. we saved...
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administration going bankrupt. he didn't actually mean that. sort of rolled over from democratic and liberal bewilderment last night that mr. romney was abandoning his main economic plan that he was running on, his $5 trillion tax cut plan, his big trickle-down plan, to be rolled over from democrats being bewildered about that to the beltway press and mainstream pundits i think now having a hard time deciding whether they are supposed to call that a lie or whether they're supposed to just say this is a radically new position for the candidate and welcome to it. joining us now, jonathan alter, columnist for "bloomberg news" and msnbc political analyst. mr. alter, great to have you here. >> hi, rachel. >> how does president obama counter the strategy of mitt romney's to unveil whole new ideas or deny he ever held the ideas that he plainly has held? it's one thing to have a truth squad fact checking online. how do you counter that at the podium? >> one is i'm rubber, you're glue, bounces off and sticks to you. trickle
administration going bankrupt. he didn't actually mean that. sort of rolled over from democratic and liberal bewilderment last night that mr. romney was abandoning his main economic plan that he was running on, his $5 trillion tax cut plan, his big trickle-down plan, to be rolled over from democrats being bewildered about that to the beltway press and mainstream pundits i think now having a hard time deciding whether they are supposed to call that a lie or whether they're supposed to just say...
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. >> today president obama signs a bill that gives the food and drug administration unprecedented power to regulate tobacco. it will allow the fda to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, and tobacco companies will have to put large warnings on cartons of cigarettes. >> the president can point to one success here in washington for the marchers. that's the imminent passage of a hate crimes bill to make it a federal crime to commit an assault based on sexual orientation. >> the senate has passed a bill that the president has been pusheding that would extend health insurance for four million children. >> children's health insurance for four million kids, fwok regulation, credit card reform. president obama and a democratic house and senate got to work fast out of the gate on addressing the crises they were handed from the previous administration. but also on spending that political capital on problems that had lingered for years but were being kicked down the road. >> the president did make an additional bit of history revamping of how college student loans are going to be handed out for ye
. >> today president obama signs a bill that gives the food and drug administration unprecedented power to regulate tobacco. it will allow the fda to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, and tobacco companies will have to put large warnings on cartons of cigarettes. >> the president can point to one success here in washington for the marchers. that's the imminent passage of a hate crimes bill to make it a federal crime to commit an assault based on sexual orientation. >> the...
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that is what joe biden did for obama in '08. that was the counter to john mccain. and they haven't done that. and i - it's going to be difficult for them to do that in the nextouple weeks. and goingnto that last debate whereygoto taing out is stuff, this is going be an issue, they're going to need to frame that up before they get there or it's going to be difficult for them to have much of a debate among, no, i'm better, i'm worse. >> i feel like we're i an unsustainable spot. these issues are being forced into discussion even if they can't be forced into the politics. i feel like reckoning is coming on this in political terms. john stanton, "buzz feed's" d.c. bureau chief. you do great work. >> pleasureo b here. >>> all right. are you a college studt? y know any eg students? do you have any sense of how college students will vote this year if they vote? a bunch of political vigilantes who know how college students are likely to vote ts year have figured out how to stop studen from doing it. it is a very simple strategy and it is very stupi and that's next. oh, hey
that is what joe biden did for obama in '08. that was the counter to john mccain. and they haven't done that. and i - it's going to be difficult for them to do that in the nextouple weeks. and goingnto that last debate whereygoto taing out is stuff, this is going be an issue, they're going to need to frame that up before they get there or it's going to be difficult for them to have much of a debate among, no, i'm better, i'm worse. >> i feel like we're i an unsustainable spot. these...
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the barack obama administration is that democrats tend to worry that their president does not get the credit that he deserves. health reform, for instance. president obama signed it in march, 2010, but some of its most crowd-pleasing provisions only just recently took effect. a bunch of others won't take effect until next year or the year after that or the year after that. it is hard to get credit for a law that has not finished becoming reality. so democrats worry. also, the payroll tax cut, sometimes called the stealth stimulus. that payroll tax cut has quietly put money into the pockets of working families for so long now, that most of those workers have forgotten that's even happening or who made it possible. so democrats worry. democrats worry that president obama does not get the credit he deserves for that or for helping bail out the auto industry in detroit or for ending the war in iraq or for adding private sector jobs, on and on and on. hey, democrats, cheer up. maybe president obama will get credit for this one. look at this. look at that. 12,000 people lining up in chicago
the barack obama administration is that democrats tend to worry that their president does not get the credit that he deserves. health reform, for instance. president obama signed it in march, 2010, but some of its most crowd-pleasing provisions only just recently took effect. a bunch of others won't take effect until next year or the year after that or the year after that. it is hard to get credit for a law that has not finished becoming reality. so democrats worry. also, the payroll tax cut,...
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at the beginning of the obama presidency in 2009, the obama administration released memos in which the bush administration had told itself that torturing people was legal. that as they read the law, cia interrogators couldn't be prosecuted for torturing anyone, because torture was legal, as they saw it. torture is not legal. torture is illegal. and as a top lawyer at the bush state department, philip zelikow circulated a letter within the administration saying that essentially the administration was kidding itself in trying to say that there was some way around the law here. they were trying to give a legal green light to cia interrogators to torture people, but that green light, he said, was a sham. after the obama administration released those sham memos from the bush administration, philip zelikow disclosed that he had written this dissent. he said he had written this dissent at the time, but he said that i cannot disclose it to you, because the bush administration tried to cover it up and pretend like it never existed. >> i heard the memo was not considered appropriate for further
at the beginning of the obama presidency in 2009, the obama administration released memos in which the bush administration had told itself that torturing people was legal. that as they read the law, cia interrogators couldn't be prosecuted for torturing anyone, because torture was legal, as they saw it. torture is not legal. torture is illegal. and as a top lawyer at the bush state department, philip zelikow circulated a letter within the administration saying that essentially the...
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. >> it doesn't surprise me that the sales of "atlas shrugged" has surged lately with the obama administration coming in. and i think addle of people would think we're living in an ayn rand novel. >> paul ryan has since said that it is an urban legend about him that he was ever a follower of ayn rand. dude, it's not an urban legend if that's you on tape saying it for years, repeatedly and with feeling. in ayn rand's novel, she leads the wealthiest people as heroes, heroes that must be protected, toward them becoming more rich. the rich are heroes, and everybody else is a taker! and the more the rich have, the better. the better for everyone. that is not fiscal conservatism either. it is something else. when the center on budget and policy priorities, a respected nonpartisan budget think tank looked at paul ryan's plan for the country back in march, this is what they concluded. they said "the new ryan budget is a remarkable document, one that for most of the past half century would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. insceps, this budget is robin hoo
. >> it doesn't surprise me that the sales of "atlas shrugged" has surged lately with the obama administration coming in. and i think addle of people would think we're living in an ayn rand novel. >> paul ryan has since said that it is an urban legend about him that he was ever a follower of ayn rand. dude, it's not an urban legend if that's you on tape saying it for years, repeatedly and with feeling. in ayn rand's novel, she leads the wealthiest people as heroes, heroes...
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that funding got approved once the obama administration took over. now, that wasn't their only investment money, fisker also got funding from a big venture capital firm in california, a firm that is a pretty high-profile firm, among its partners, people like meg whitman, she's been a big high-profile supporter and fundraiser and donor for john mccain last time around and for mitt romney. the same firm also has as a partner a man named al gore, who you might have heard of. the main partner tied to the fisker investment firm is this guy, a john mccain donor and rudy giuliani donor and george w. bush donor. that's the situation in the real world and in the economy. but in politics, the mitt romney campaign is now trying to sell the idea that the fisker car company is an obama donor scandal. >> i'm ashamed to say that we're seeing our president hand out money to the businesses of campaign contributors when he gave money, $500 million in loans, to a company called fisker that makes high-end electric cars. >> i think meg whitman is going to get annoyed she
that funding got approved once the obama administration took over. now, that wasn't their only investment money, fisker also got funding from a big venture capital firm in california, a firm that is a pretty high-profile firm, among its partners, people like meg whitman, she's been a big high-profile supporter and fundraiser and donor for john mccain last time around and for mitt romney. the same firm also has as a partner a man named al gore, who you might have heard of. the main partner tied...
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if you look at almost all of the major palmacies associated with the obama administration, they were in the past five years policies that major republicans supported. today, for instance, republicans almost university oppose a cap and trade plan, but you know who first introduced a cap and trade plan into the senate, republican senator john mccain, and you know who had one in the 2008 presidential platform, john mccain. you know what he thinks of cap and trade now? cap n tax. very clever. they say deficit stimulus finance doesn't work. they oppose the theory behind it. they say you would only believe that but in 2008, george w. bush pushed and signed the, wait for it, the economic stimulus act of 2008, the $157 billion deficit finance act bit. among those supporting the legislation, congressman paul ryan. what does paul ryan think of deficit finance cuts now? >> we have proven that these temporary sugar high economics, these stemulous effects don't work to grow the economy. >> this is not how politics is supposed to work. the way politics is supposed to work is that when you're for s
if you look at almost all of the major palmacies associated with the obama administration, they were in the past five years policies that major republicans supported. today, for instance, republicans almost university oppose a cap and trade plan, but you know who first introduced a cap and trade plan into the senate, republican senator john mccain, and you know who had one in the 2008 presidential platform, john mccain. you know what he thinks of cap and trade now? cap n tax. very clever. they...